Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-09
THE KANSAS LEGIsLAruRE

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At the close OF the Legislature the mem
beers had sort of love feast and they
called upon Hon. Edward Carroll, OF
Leasenworth, for few remarks. Among
a great many other things of similar
character, he said:
| There are some things about Kansas Legislature
which do not like. Ninety members of this house,
in order to earn bouquets, voted for sentimental
piece o. legislation. OF these ninety members forty
went and personally requested Gov. Martin to undo
what they themselves had done. What do not like
about the present legislature is to With the
oounteuances of prize fighters coming in after an
all nights debauch with Topeka rotgut whiskey
oozpg out OF their eyes deliver lecture temper.
ance 70 gentlemen like my self who never drink q
drop Gentlemen, call upon you to so to your
homes and relegate to private life these eyesores
upon any body. They are disgrace to themselves,
to their paternity, to their constituents. and to the
peopleof Kansas.
This confirms what we have always
said; namely, that there are more hyp-
ocrites and demagogues among Kansas
public men than in any ten states in the
union. LIZ not q mans mind broad when
he votes for woman's suffrage because
the women give him bouquets? Is he
not full bloom, political daisy, when he
goes personally to the governor and asks
to have undone, that which he did for
flowers and smiles? Then again, imagine
red-eyed, red-nosed Pecksniff, after a
night of debauch on Kansas whiskey,
made from Arkansaw water and aqua
fortis, making temperance speechl Mr..
Carroll also gave some spicy eulOgies on
the "boodle senate" where, he says, not
bill passed that was not bought through
with flowers, smiles, or money. This is
the Republican, Kansas law making
power. Isn't it rich? Look at it. Elk
anime it. Think of it. Is it good for the
state? Doodle, flowers, smiles, DRINKS,
hypocrites, all conglomerated mass
and this is Kansas Republicanism. Poor,
old John Browns body will turn over in
the grave Ness City Sentinel.
We heard those remarks of Mr.. CAROLS.
The World has done him the justice
not to mention them heretofore. Now,
that his fool Democratic friends have
pushed us into speaking, some unvar-
nished truth will be stated in plain terms.
In this case, the object of the Democratic
press is, as usual, to cast aspersions up
on the Republican majority in the Kan
sas legislature. The Republican voters
Of Kansas will see that their representa-
tives in the legislature are not hit one
half as hard as the people who elected
them. It is fact, We assert, that the
legislature, as whole, can not be more
corrupt than are the people by whose
votes its members were chosen. To say
that the present Kansas legislature aver
ages to be q set of drunkards or set of
dishonest men is the act of an idiot.
The fact is, Mr.. Carroll made no such a
broad statement. This he left for his
Democratic newspaper friends to do.
But Mr.. Carroll said more in this direc-
ton than the truth justifes. If he knew
drunken, dishonest men in the legislature,
it was his duty, under the circumstances,
to name them, and not furnish SANDER
ously-inclined newspaper writer's the
material for applying his epithets to the
whole legislature.
Mr.. Carroll treated us kindly, and we
like him well enough. He is by no
means the ablest member of the house,
but he has seen good deal oflegislative
service, and is well posted in the routine
of Legislative work.
Mr.. Carroll is the reputed leader of the
Democratic minority of the house. That
is to say, they follow him when they feel
like doing so, which is by no means q
regular proceeding. The speech of Mr..
CAROLS, of which the Sentinel pretends
to quote portion, was delivered amid
the closing hours of the legislative SEES
sion, wherein the deliverer had done lit
tie or nothing but growl and otherwise
rear backward in the breeching. He was
soured at Republican members for pass
ing the bill giving to women the right
of municipal suffrage in cities. In his
speech of denunciation against the meas
ure, he had manifested bitterness which
could be justified by no fair analysis of
the subject. Mr.. Carroll had been un-
relenting and unjust in his warfare upon
the Murray temperance bill. He could
think of nothing too hard to say Of that
measure. In his mind, according to his
tongue, its supporters, as rule, were
acting, not from sense of principle, but
were being driven by the party lash into
voting for it. In the estimation of Mr..
Carroll, the Metropolitan Police bill was
revolutionary in its aims and tendencies.
He had no admissions to make in behalf
of the people of Leavenworth not having
obeyed just as implicitly as any other
community the laws of the state. The
Jury Commissioner bill was another of
the poisonous measures which had been
pressed to the heart of Mr.. Carroll To
say that Mr.. Carroll accomplished moth
ing of state Importance last winter, is
putting it mildly. Acting the soured
raver, instead of the placid statesman,
had placed him in precisely the proper
condition for the delivery of the closing